FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Announcement

Well, after a long wait and an unexpected RC5, FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is here, the 10th version of this venerable operating system.

FreeBSD 10 comes with a lot more and better support for virtualisation (Hyper-V, virtio, BHyVe), Clang is the default compiler (replacing GCC), better WiFi support, better DNS tools (Unbound and LNDS) and support for ZFS TRIM and LZ4 compression. Other gems are support for the Raspberry Pi, Amazon AWS EC2 cloud, and a framework called netmap for fast and safe access to network devices for fast packet I/O.

FreeBSD may have a relatively small percentage of the global server market, but it is very promising that the FreeBSD technology is being implemented (or should I say, embedded) and utilised now by some well known companies, such as Sony, NetApp, CloudSigma and Netflix.

Read the announcement for more information, download links, MD5s and acknowledgements.